Re: IDE hard drive failure

2003-09-04 Thread Michael Chappell
In linux.debian.user, Paladin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 10:20:31 -0700 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 1. If the BIOS doesn't always recognize the drive, then you have > > one of three problems: bad BIOS, bad cable, bad drive. Since the > > drive has already failed onc

Re: IDE hard drive failure

2003-09-03 Thread Paladin
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 10:20:31 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. If the BIOS doesn't always recognize the drive, then you have > one of three problems: bad BIOS, bad cable, bad drive. Since the > drive has already failed once, you're pretty sure it's the third > reason. Try swapping/re-seating

Re: IDE hard drive failure

2003-09-03 Thread paul
Paladin declaimed: > Hi, > > One of my drives (the least important, thank God!) failled recently. > Since I can't afford taking it to some company that recovers data I > was thinking of using software to try to recover the best I could. > I found a very good program named my_rescue that does some

Re: IDE hard drive failure

2003-09-03 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 16:39, Paladin wrote: > Do you know of any program that allows access to a drive bypassing > the BIOS? You can try to disable the drive in the BIOS, the Linux kernel ignores those settings anyway. Chances are though that this won't improve the situation. > BTW, wou

IDE hard drive failure

2003-09-03 Thread Paladin
Hi, One of my drives (the least important, thank God!) failled recently. Since I can't afford taking it to some company that recovers data I was thinking of using software to try to recover the best I could. I found a very good program named my_rescue that does some of the dd work, but if it found